Geert Stappers wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote:
> The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package
which
> replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a
> dependency)?"
Dependency means that a package with a foobar script
depends on the foobar interpreter.
An example of a `replace` are in vim:
Replaces: vim-rt, vim-tiny (<< 6.0), vim-perl (<< 6.0), vim-python (<<
6.0), vim-tcl (<< 6.0), vim-tty (<< 6.0), vim-gtk (<< 6.0)
Provides: editor, vim-rt
I don't want to have the package replace the other package, I just want
to "fine tune" the prerequisite package.
dspsyco
>From its description:
Description: Debian packages of system configurations
Dpsyco introduces the concept of configuration packages. It is a special
form of debian packages that is applied on top of the original debian
packages. With this you can add users, groups, apply a file skeleton,
patch things and more. Observe! No such configuration packages should be
uploaded to the debian archives. This kind of things are intended to be
created and used by the system administrator only.
Well, this sounded exciting. I went and looked at it and read the web
page. Maybe the documentation doesn't do it service but... the two
things I got from it were A) "Danger Will Robinson!" , "there be nasties
here laddie" and B) its for managing user/group ids--didn't say anything
really about autofs mount maps.
Eric the Red
